Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — ABOUT MEN. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT MEN.

William H. McElroy, for ten years a, leading man on the New York Tribue staff,is to abandon journalism jnd take to lecturing. His three subjects are: “Famous Men at Famous Dinners;” “Repartee as a Fine Art,”and “George William Curtis.” Some doubt having been expressed is to the Jewish origin of the late Dr. Schnitzer, known as Emin Pasha, the Jewish Chronicle, of London, has nade inquiries and prints the record >f Emin’s birth, preserved in the synagogue of Oppelu, in Prussia. When the King of the Beligians stopped in a tavern at Spike during i recent rain storm he overheard the Hostess remark: “I’ve seen the mug >f this tall fellow before.” Ere leavng the place the King presented the Hostess with a bust of himself and ater forwarded a large photograph vith his autograph.